Luggage-carrier.



.1. MUSSELMAN.

LUGGAGE CARRIER.

APPucATloN FILED 1111.14.1914.

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'UNIFIED .@IATE@ PATENT OFFIII.

ALVIN J, MUSSELMAN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO CYCLE MFG. & SUPPLY COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF SOUTH DAKOTA.

LUGGAGE-CARRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent Patented Sept. 231i, 1915.

Application filed January 14, 1914. Serial No. 812,06*?.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, ALVIN il'. MUSSELMAN, a citizen of the United States,rresiding at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Luggage-Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to Vcertain new and useful improvements in luggage carriers and is fully described and explained in the specification and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the rear portion of a bicycle with my luggage-carrier attached thereto; Fig. 2 is a rear elevation, and Fig. 3 is a top plan thereof.`

Referring to the drawings, l is the seatpest of the bicycle to which the device is attached. rIhe seat-pom supports a clamp 5 from which extends in a rearward direction horizontal bar 6.' This bar carries a clamp 7 to which are attached two downwardlyextending members 8, each formed of out wardly-facing channel-iron in the preferred form of construction, each of the members 8 terminating at its lower end in a plate 9 having on its forward edge a series of per-v forated ears 10 which are adapted to engage the ends of the bicycle axle. By engaging one or another of the ears with the axle, a device of a given size accommodates itself to a frame of any given height, any trifling irregularities being taken care of by shifting the clamp 7 along the bar 6, in an obvious manner.

For the purpose of supporting the luggage-carrying baskets, there is mounted on the rear end of the bar 6, an ordinary bicycle seat-clamp 11, which, however, is in inverted position. These clamps are in common use for holding the wires of a two-wire saddle, in which case they are placed with the clamping bolt underneath the seat-post. In the present case, however, since the baskets extend downward from the clamp and are hung thereon, the clamp is turned over. 12 are the two baskets, the same being Vmade of wire and preferably of the general form shown. IIhey are hollowed out on their sides adjacent to the wheel to enable them to fit over the members 8, as shown in Fig. 2. Each of these baskets, like similar wire structures, is surrounded at its upper edge by a. heavy wire, and the wires, on the sides upwardly extending loops 13, adapted to be engaged by the clamp 11. Ior the purpose of holding the baskets firmly in position and preventing them -from swinging outward laterally, each is held in position by bolts lei' 'passed through the adjacent member 8, a washer being provided to grip the wire of the basket between itself and the member 8, in an obvious manner. By this construction, there is provided a luggage-carrier of very large capacity which will carry a weight as heavy as can be borne safely by the backwheel and tire of a bicycle. 'Ihe luggage carrier is of very firm and substantial construction and, under the ordinary shocks and strains subjected to it in use, is more durable than the bicycle structure itself. In its use the weight may be distributed symmetrically on the two sides of the wheel, so that a balance is preserved.

I realize that considerable variation is possible in the details of the construction herein shown, and I do not intend to limit myself thereto, except as pointed out in the following claims, in which it is my intention to cla-im all the novelty inherent in the device as broadly as is permitted by the state of the art. A

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:-

1. In combination with a bicycle, a bar extending rearwardly from the seat-post, struts extending downwardly therefrom to maintain the same substantially horizontal, and containers supported by the bar and depending therefrom on the two sides of the wheel.

2. In combination with a bicycle, a bar extending rearwardly from the seat-post and clamped thereto at its forward end, struts extending downwardly therefrom to maintain the same substantially horizontal, and containers supported by the bar and depending therefrom on the two sides of the wheel, and having their depending portions bearing against the said struts.

3. In combination with a bicycle, a bar` extending rearwardly from the seat-post, struts extending downwardly therefrom and engaging the ends of the bicycle-axle to maintain the bar substantially horizontal, and containers supported by the bar and depending therefrom on the two sides of the wheel, and having their depending portions bearing against the said struts. f

ik. In combination with a bicycle, a bar extending rearwardly from the seat-post, struts extending downwardly therefrom to maintain the same substantially horizontal, containers, each having a loop on its inner, upper edge, and a clamp on the bar engaging the loops to support the containers in depending position on the two sides of the wheel of .the bicycle.

5. In combination with a bicycle, a bar extending rearwardly from the seat-post, strutsv extending downwardly therefrom to maintain the same substantially horizontal,

containers, each having a loop on itsinner,

upper edge, a clamp on the bar engaging the loops to support the containers in depending position on the two sides of the wheel of Copies of this patent may be obtained for the bicycle, and means to clamp the lower ends of the containers to the struts.

6. In combination with a bicycle, a bar extending rearwardly from the seat-post and clamped thereto at its forward end, struts extending downwardly from the bar and engaging the ends of the bicycle-axle to maintain the bar in horizontal position, containers, each having a loop on its inner, upper edge, and a clamp on the bar engaging the loops to support the containers `in depending position on the two sides of the `wheel of the bicycle. y In testimony whereof I have 'hereunto set my hand this 12th day of January, 1914.

ALVIN J. MUSSELMAN. Inpresence of vtwo subscribing witnesses:

GEORGE A. CHRITTON, Louis HnisLAR;

ve cents eachfbyiaddressing the Commissioner of Iiatents, Washington, D. C.V Y Y 

